Playing vcd's or svcd's in DVD player

[bschwart222]

I have a sony dvd player and I have some backed up dvd's that I want to make sure work in case I loose my current copy and when i put the backed up svcd in the sony it doesn't play. Is there anything I can do?

It also won't play on my laptop and I am using Interplay to play it. It works on my desktop but not on my laptop.

Any help would be very appreciated.

Thanks.